Robert C James
Biographic Data
| ID | 4874523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert C James |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert C |
| FAMILY NAME | James |
| SIGNATURE | JAMES R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7117-0080 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Un-Silencing ‘The Most Silent Section of “The Silent Service”’
This article explores the portrayal of Royal Navy submarines, their crews, and depot ships in the Illustrated London News during the Second World War. Through an examination of this newspaper, it argues that Britain was shown to have a technologically advanced and potent submarine service. The coverage in the ILN was not only partly didactic but also reassuring, demonstrating to the newspaper's readers that Britain and its allies were capable of …
Coastal studies and society
Daniel Ussishkin, Morale
Read for Victory’
In 1942, a library official in Portsmouth, UK appealed to the city’s inhabitants to ‘read for victory’, believing that they had a duty to use their reading time productively as part of their wartime activities. This article argues that long-standing desires among the country’s political and civic elites to encourage the nation’s readers to spend their leisure time prudently intensified during the Second World War. The public library service was u…
Port Towns and Urban Cultures
Despite the port’s prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of marit
Literature Acknowledges No Boundaries”
Sitting down to read a work of fiction was a well-established leisure activity within British society by the early-twentieth century, but one that
Cinema and Society in the British Empire, 1895–1940, by James Burns
In this well-researched and absorbing book, James Burns sets himself an ambitious task: to evaluate how cinema helped to shape the imperial experience for both the coloniser and the colonised in Br
Cinema-going in a port town, 1914–1951
This article examines the localized nature of leisure provision and consumer taste in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on an analysis of the cinema-going habits of naval personnel and dockyard workers and their families in the naval town of Portsmouth, this article reveals how closely consumers’ tastes were predicated on their social and cultural identities. By mapping film booking patterns at one cinema, this article rev…
The Cinema and Cinema-Going in Scotland, 1896–1950
Popular Film-going in Britain in the Early 1930s
This article examines the relationship between leisure and class in early 1930s Britain. Based on an examination of Sidney Bernstein’s film popularity surveys, the article offers a comparative analysis of the tastes of middle- and working-class cinema-goers in a period during which society’s engagement with that cultural medium was vital. It argues that while the middle and working classes shared many similarities in film tastes, they also exhibi…
Hollywood in the Neighborhood
Hollywood in the Neighborhood: historical case studies of local moviegoing KATHRYN H. FULLER-SEELEY (ed.) Berkeley, University of California Press, 2008 276 pp., $24.95 (paper) Film history has bee
A Very Profitable Enterprise’
Geographic Location of Commercial Plasma Donation Clinics in the United States, 1980–1995
Objective. We examined the location of commercial plasma donation centers in the United States over the period 1980 to 1995 relative to the geographic distribution of risk behaviors associated with transfusion-transmissible infections. Methods. The census tract locations of commercial source plasma clinics were described by measures of neighborhood social disadvantage and the prevalence of illicit drug use and active local drug economies. Results…
Balancing Rural Poverty Reduction and Citizen Participation
Principles of Toxicology
PHILLIP L. WILLIAMS, PhD, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health Science at the University of Georgia, Athens. ROBERT C. JAMES, PhD, is President of TERRA, Inc., Tallahassee, Florida, and Associate Scientist at the Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. STEPHEN M. ROBERTS, PhD, is Professor and Program Director of the Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology at the University of Flori…
Balancing Rural Poverty Reduction and Citizen Participation
Port Towns and Urban Cultures
Despite the port’s prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of marit
Coastal studies and society
Geographic Location of Commercial Plasma Donation Clinics in the United States, 1980–1995
Objective. We examined the location of commercial plasma donation centers in the United States over the period 1980 to 1995 relative to the geographic distribution of risk behaviors associated with transfusion-transmissible infections. Methods. The census tract locations of commercial source plasma clinics were described by measures of neighborhood social disadvantage and the prevalence of illicit drug use and active local drug economies. Results…
Cinema-going in a port town, 1914–1951
This article examines the localized nature of leisure provision and consumer taste in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on an analysis of the cinema-going habits of naval personnel and dockyard workers and their families in the naval town of Portsmouth, this article reveals how closely consumers’ tastes were predicated on their social and cultural identities. By mapping film booking patterns at one cinema, this article rev…
Popular Film-going in Britain in the Early 1930s
This article examines the relationship between leisure and class in early 1930s Britain. Based on an examination of Sidney Bernstein’s film popularity surveys, the article offers a comparative analysis of the tastes of middle- and working-class cinema-goers in a period during which society’s engagement with that cultural medium was vital. It argues that while the middle and working classes shared many similarities in film tastes, they also exhibi…
Principles of Toxicology
PHILLIP L. WILLIAMS, PhD, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health Science at the University of Georgia, Athens. ROBERT C. JAMES, PhD, is President of TERRA, Inc., Tallahassee, Florida, and Associate Scientist at the Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. STEPHEN M. ROBERTS, PhD, is Professor and Program Director of the Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology at the University of Flori…
Balancing Rural Poverty Reduction and Citizen Participation
Geographic Location of Commercial Plasma Donation Clinics in the United States, 1980–1995
Objective. We examined the location of commercial plasma donation centers in the United States over the period 1980 to 1995 relative to the geographic distribution of risk behaviors associated with transfusion-transmissible infections. Methods. The census tract locations of commercial source plasma clinics were described by measures of neighborhood social disadvantage and the prevalence of illicit drug use and active local drug economies. Results…
A Very Profitable Enterprise’
Hollywood in the Neighborhood
Hollywood in the Neighborhood: historical case studies of local moviegoing KATHRYN H. FULLER-SEELEY (ed.) Berkeley, University of California Press, 2008 276 pp., $24.95 (paper) Film history has bee
Popular Film-going in Britain in the Early 1930s
This article examines the relationship between leisure and class in early 1930s Britain. Based on an examination of Sidney Bernstein’s film popularity surveys, the article offers a comparative analysis of the tastes of middle- and working-class cinema-goers in a period during which society’s engagement with that cultural medium was vital. It argues that while the middle and working classes shared many similarities in film tastes, they also exhibi…
Cinema-going in a port town, 1914–1951
This article examines the localized nature of leisure provision and consumer taste in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on an analysis of the cinema-going habits of naval personnel and dockyard workers and their families in the naval town of Portsmouth, this article reveals how closely consumers’ tastes were predicated on their social and cultural identities. By mapping film booking patterns at one cinema, this article rev…
The Cinema and Cinema-Going in Scotland, 1896–1950
Cinema and Society in the British Empire, 1895–1940, by James Burns
In this well-researched and absorbing book, James Burns sets himself an ambitious task: to evaluate how cinema helped to shape the imperial experience for both the coloniser and the colonised in Br
Port Towns and Urban Cultures
Despite the port’s prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of marit
Literature Acknowledges No Boundaries”
Sitting down to read a work of fiction was a well-established leisure activity within British society by the early-twentieth century, but one that
Read for Victory’
In 1942, a library official in Portsmouth, UK appealed to the city’s inhabitants to ‘read for victory’, believing that they had a duty to use their reading time productively as part of their wartime activities. This article argues that long-standing desires among the country’s political and civic elites to encourage the nation’s readers to spend their leisure time prudently intensified during the Second World War. The public library service was u…
Daniel Ussishkin, Morale
Coastal studies and society
Un-Silencing ‘The Most Silent Section of “The Silent Service”’
This article explores the portrayal of Royal Navy submarines, their crews, and depot ships in the Illustrated London News during the Second World War. Through an examination of this newspaper, it argues that Britain was shown to have a technologically advanced and potent submarine service. The coverage in the ILN was not only partly didactic but also reassuring, demonstrating to the newspaper's readers that Britain and its allies were capable of …
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